Spurge: Definition and part of speech

Spurge

  1. n. Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
  2. v. t. To emit foam; to froth; — said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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